RSS think tank SJM accuses Niti Aayog of pursuing anti-poor agenda

Policy think tank pushing agenda of MNCs in health and agriculture, says letter

The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), an economic policy think tank affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has accused the NITI Aayog and bureaucrats of three key central ministries of trying to sabotage the Prime Minister’s vision of making medicines accessible to the poor at affordable prices.

In a letter to the PM, the SJM has accused the NITI Aayog of pursuing an agenda that is “against national interests and fundamentally anti-poor.” It said the Aayog and bureaucrats were working in a “concerted fashion to lobby for crass commercial interests of the pharmaceutical sector.”

The SJM, which has representation